A West Englewood man has been arrested for burning his stepson by throwing a caustic substance on him and for stabbing the stepson with a screwdriver, police said today. Karl Morley, 48, of the 1500 block of West 72nd Street, was charged Saturday with a felony count of heinous battery and one count of misdemeanor domestic battery, police said. On June 6, Morley allegedly threw a caustic substance from a Jack Daniel's whiskey bottle on his adult stepson, police said. The...

A West Englewood man has been arrested for burning his stepson by throwing a caustic substance on him and for stabbing the stepson with a screwdriver, police said today. Karl Morley, 48, of the 1500 block of West 72nd Street, was charged Saturday with a felony count of heinous battery and one count of misdemeanor domestic battery, police said. On June 6, Morley allegedly threw a caustic substance from a Jack Daniel's whiskey bottle on his adult stepson, police said. The...

A Chicago Police Department evidence technician at the scene of a shooting. (Tribune photo by Terrence Antonio James) Two people were wounded in a drive-by shooting this afternoon while standing in an alley near a South Side gas station, police said. The shooting happened about 3:20 p.m. near Marquette Road and Damen Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood. The victims were reported in good...

A 41-year-old woman was shot in the abdomen early this morning on the front porch of a friend's South Side residence. The woman was reported in serious condition at Stroger Hospital but was expected to survive, Chicago police said. The shooting happened shortly before 2 a.m. near West 59th and South Paulina Streets in the West Englewood neighborhood. No one was in custody. -- Staff report

Three men were shot and wounded at separate parties around the city overnight, including a man shot at his own birthday party. At 1:24 a.m. in West Englewood, a 35-year-old and 42-year-old were shot at a party in the 6300 block of South Seeley Avenue, according to a release from police News Affairs. The 35-year-old who was celebrating his birthday was shot in the lower back and taken in good condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. The 42-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to his thigh and...

A 17-year-old girl was shot in the face but remained in fair condition late Friday, police said. About 9:50 p.m. in West Englewood, the teen was standing on the sidewalk near the intersection of South Wood and West 64th streets when shots were fired and she was struck in the face, according to police New Affairs Officer Hecotr Alfaro. No one else was injured and no other details were immediately available, Alfaro said. The girl was taken to...

A 21-year-old man was hospitalized in serious condition after being shot late Thursday in the groin, police said. The shooting happened as the man was standing on the 2000 block of West 70th Street, police said. The shooting occurred at 11:13 p.m. in the West Englewood neighborhood. The man was in serious condition at Holy Cross Hospital. No one was in custody, police said. Detectives are investigating. No other details were available. -- Carlos Sadovi

A man was shot early this morning during an argument in the West Englewood neighborhood, police said. At about 12:45 a.m., a 28-year-old man was shot in his right calf after he and his assailant got into an argument in the 7000 block of South Hermitage Avenue, according to Englewood District police. The man was taken to Holy Cross Hospital where his condition had stabilized, police said. Police are looking for one suspect whom the victim knows, police said. No one was in custody...

A small fire on the roof of a West Englewood apartment building this afternoon left three people displaced from their homes, fire officials said. No injuries were reported at the fire, which broke out about 4:45 p.m. at a three-story building in the 6500 block of South Ashland Avenue and was extinguished a few minutes later, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Quention Curtis. Curtis said the city Department of Human Services was on the scene to help the displaced people, all of whom...

A 16-year-old boy was shot late Wednesday night in an apparent drive-by shooting in the city's West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. The shooting happened about 11:38 p.m. on the 5600 block of South Hoyne Avenue, police said. The teen was walking on the street when shots were fired from a dark-colored vehicle, according to preliminary reports. The youth was struck in the buttocks and was taken in stable condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, police. As of 1:30 a.m., no one...

A 24-year-old man was found shot and seriously wounded late Sunday night in an apartment in the West Englewood neighborhood on the city's South Side. Officers responded about 11:47 p.m. to the apartment on the 5900 block of South Elizabeth Street to find the victim with gunshot wounds to his chest and face, said Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines. He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, police said. There was no immediate information about the...

Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel today added the personal touch to his financial support and endorsement of 17th Ward Ald. Latasha Thomas, appearing with her at a get-out-the-vote rally in advance of Tuesday's runoff election. Thomas, an 11-year City Council veteran, faces David Moore in the head-to-head contest. Moore says Thomas has let things slip in the ward, which includes parts of Englewood, West Englewood and Gresham. But in his first announced appearance at a campaign event hosted by a...

Chicago police have started a homicide investigation into the shooting death of a man found on a South Side street early this morning, police said this morning. Police were called to the 5700 block of South Winchester Avenue in West Englewood where they found the man about 2:06 a.m. with gunshot wounds to his torso, arm and leg, according to a release from the department. He was transported to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where was pronounced dead at 2:56 a.m., police said.

At least eight people were shot in various parts of the city Wednesday as the mild temperatures began to take hold, officials said. Three suspects were in custody in one of the shootings following a police chase on area expressways. That shooting happened about 9:45 p.m., on the 6900 block of South Yale Avenue where a man was shot three times, twice in the leg and once in the abdomen. A responding police car spotted a vehicle that matched the description of one...

Two men were charged with murder over the weekend in connection with killings committed last year and in 2009. Shawn Rudolph, 20, of the 5700 block of South Indiana Avenue, was the first to appear before Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas on Sunday. Prosecutors charged him with the first-degree murder of Andrew Powell, 15, who was gunned down on his front porch at his home in the West Englewood neighborhood on Sept. 30, 2010. Witnesses said Rudolph was standing across...

A 16-year-old boy was shot late Wednesday night in an apparent drive-by shooting in the city's West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. The shooting happened about 11:38 p.m. on the 5600 block of South Hoyne Avenue, police said. The teen was walking on the street when shots were fired from a dark-colored vehicle, according to preliminary reports. The youth was struck in the buttocks and was taken in stable condition to Mount Sinai...

Chicago police issued a missing person's alert today for a woman who has been missing for nearly six weeks, officials said. Carmelita Johnson, 47, was last seen by her relatives on Jan. 5, police said. Johnson is from the area near 55th St. and Seeley Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood, police said. According to the missing person's alert Johnson is described as African-American with a medium complexion, 5 feet 6 inches tall, 140 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.

A 27-year-old man was seriously wounded in a shooting Tuesday night in the city's West Englewood neighborhood. The shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. on the 1600 block of West 66th Street, police said. The victim was sitting inside his vehicle when someone approached on foot and shot him several times, according to preliminary reports. The man suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen and six wounds to his left arm, police said. He was taken in serious condition...

A Wisconsin man has died after being shot in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side -- about an hour and a half before a woman was shot on the same block. Police couldn't say if there's a connection between the Sunday shootings. The first shooting happened about 4:30 p.m. on the 5700 block of South Damen Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood. In that crime, a 23-year-old man was wounded in his head and chest. Titus Mitchell of Wisconsin was pronounced dead shortly after...